Perth international shipbuilder has welcomed the arrival of the Austal USA built USS Canberra to Sydney ahead of the vessel’s commissioning on Saturday. Originally designed at Austal Australia and built by Austal at its shipyard in Mobile, Alabama, the Independence-variant Littoral Combat Ship USS Canberra sailed close to the Royal Australian Navy vessel HMAS Canberra.…
Student enrolments in government-funded vocational education and training (VET) have declined in the 12 months to December 2022, according to a new study.. The latest students and courses 2022 report from the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) shows that there were 1,196,535 students enrolled in government-funded VET in 2022, down by 4.3 percent…
The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has announced $3.7 million in funding to energy demand response specialist Enel X to demonstrate and scale flexible energy demand solutions in the commercial and industrial refrigeration sector. The ‘Unlocking Flexible Demand in the Commercial Refrigeration Sector’ project is seeking to recruit 440 supermarkets and 13 refrigerated warehouses to…
Sydney-based quantum computing startup Diraq has been awarded a $3 million grant from the NSW Quantum Computing Commercialisation Fund (QCCF) to assist with R&D. Diraq, which is aiming to enable up to billions of spin-based qubits on a circuit using CMOS chip fabrication processes, was awarded the grant following an “extensive peer review by a…
Applications opened on Tuesday morning for the Plastics Technology stream of the federal Recycling Modernisation Fund, offering grant funding of between $1 million and $20 million each to projects concerned with hard-to-recycle plastics. According to a statement from federal environment minister Tanya Plibersek, up to $60 million in total would support projects including: advanced recycling…
A proposed national framework aimed at improving trust in recycled materials has moved forward with the release of a new discussion paper. The country’s environment ministers met last month and agreed to progress an initiative on recycled content traceability. According to a statement from federal environment minister Tanya Plibersek on Tuesday, this would allow users…
Radiopharmaceutical producer Cyclopharm has announced record sales revenue for 1H FY23 of $15.3 million, up 39 percent on the previous corresponding period. Sales of its Technegas product were steady on the previous corresponding period, with third party distribution sales up 116 percent on the PCP to $7.7 million. For the first time third party sales…
Green hydrogen producer Countrywide Hydrogen has revealed its hydrogen retailing strategy and launched its vehicle refuelling brand H2Co Energy. Countrywide, a subsidiary of listed green energy developer ReNu Energy, has previously announced its engineering supplier, Wood, had selected contractors and suppliers for its Tasmanian green hydrogen and green energy projects, ahead of a final investment…
Australia and New Zealand metals distributor and processor Vulcan Steel has further pared back its full year earnings forecast following higher than expected costs for the integration of the Ullrich aluminium businesses. The Australian and NZ listed company said EBITDA for the 12 months to June 2023 would be between NZ$205 to $209 million, down…
Resources giant BHP, Monash University and steelmaker China Baowu have announced that they have formed a new Industry Knowledge Centre, with its initial phase including piloting and plant-scale trials of potential carbon abatement technology for steel production. In a statement from BHP on Monday, it said it would provide $US 8 million over three years…
